Walter Cramer

Bernardo Wilhelm Walter Cramer (May 1 as 1886 , Leipzig – November 14 as 1944 , Berlin ) was a German businessman member of the failed plot of July 20 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf ‘s Lair .

Biography

Member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and the Leipziger Kammgarnspinnerei Stöhr & Co. AG , he took part in the resistance movement led by Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884-1945). After the attack on the Führer he was arrested two days later and tried before the Volksgerichtshof and sentenced to death in Plötzensee Prison on 14 November 1944.

In 1945, the street named Walter-Cramer-Straße was named in his hometown of Leipzig and with a monument in the Johannapark in 1996.